Iconoclastic crypto-preneur Brock Pierce introduced on July 4th his candidacy for President of the US, operating as an Unbiased within the November 3, 2020 Presidential election.  Pierce took to Twitter to make the announcement.

I, Brock Pierce, am operating for President of the US of America. #2020 #BROCKTHEVOTE https://t.co/Ede6mABpTP pic.twitter.com/oTAmxuyOdm

— ₿rock Pierce 🦄🔱🙏🏼 (@brockpierce) July 5, 2020

Pierce’s marketing campaign revealed that as a powerful supporter of entrepreneurs and small companies, he understands what it takes to construct a enterprise from the bottom up.

“Pierce is campaigning on a imaginative and prescient for a brighter future for Individuals after the challenges of 2020 by supporting small companies and implementing 21st-century know-how practices that may allow Individuals to steer extra affluent lives, from supporting psychological well being initiatives to supporting grassroots efforts to guard the surroundings. He leads his marketing campaign with MAKE EVERY VOICE COUNT.”

Pierce additional noticed:

“I’ve spent my life creating nice issues from nothing and I might help others do the identical. Entrepreneurs are important to the rebuilding of this nation that we love, and I’m operating on this race as a result of I do know that collectively we might help construct a pathway in direction of the rebirth of the America we love a lot.”

Pierce’s marketing campaign then added upon shifting to Puerto Rico in 2017, he instantly prioritized philanthropy after seeing the devastation Hurricane Maria left behind. He later led The Integro Basis, which is a Puerto Rico based mostly not-for-profit group, which supplies philanthropic sources to Puerto Rico, Caribbean Islands, and the indigenous individuals of the Americas.

“Integro’s packages are designed to revive areas in important want, empower people, promote sustainability and supply the wanted sources to be able to thrive. Integro supplies pressing aid throughout instances of disaster, working with vetted native charities, organizations and authorities businesses to deploy sources effectively, with totally accountable donations.”

HIVE Blockchain Applied sciences Ltd. (TSX.V: HIVE) (OTCQX: HVBTF) introduced on Monday it has ordered 200 Bitmain Antminer S17e 60 Terahash per second (TH/s) SHA 256 mining machines because it continues to scale as much as next-generation mining energy at its inexperienced energy-powered bitcoin mining operation in Quebec, Canada.

In keeping with HIVE, the price for the S17e machines was roughly US$950 per unit, or simply underneath US$0.2 million, financed by way of the Firm’s money. Supply and set up of the brand new mining gear are anticipated to happen in July. HIVE additionally noticed:

“Following set up, excluding additional purchases, HIVE estimates its combination working hash price particularly from subsequent era mining gear at its Quebec facility, might be roughly 131 Petahash per second (PH/s), using lower than 6 MW energy. This equates to roughly 22.6 PH per megawatt (MW) of energy, which HIVE believes is without doubt one of the most power environment friendly bitcoin mining operations in Canada.”

HIVE then famous whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted logistics and the availability of recent bitcoin miners manufactured in Asia, Monday’s introduced buy is HIVE’s third buy of next-generation bitcoin mining gear over the previous two months, totaling roughly $2.35 million with the quantities paid by way of money readily available. HIVE added:

“As a part of its technique to maximise the capability and effectivity of its facility, HIVE intends to proceed using money stream to make opportunistic investments within the facility. These investments embrace putting in subsequent era mining gear that may present optimistic gross mining margins submit the Could 2020 halving of bitcoin rewards; the subsequent halving is scheduled to happen in 2024.”

PAYFAZZ, an Indonesia-based fintech startup, has reportedly secured $53 million by way of its Collection B funding spherical, which was led by B Capital Group and Insignia Ventures Companions with participation from Tiger World Administration, Y Combinator, ACE & Firm, BRI Ventures, and Quiet Capital.

Based in 2016, PAYFAZZ states it has created a distributed community of financial institution brokers in Indonesia, who performs monetary transactions on behalf of unbanked and underbanked prospects.

“PAYFAZZ is on a mission to empower SMEs and the agricultural inhabitants with know-how to construct Indonesia’s digital economic system, and imaginative and prescient is to develop into a world class know-how firm and the perfect digital integration platform for Indonesia’s digital economic system. We will accomplish our mission by minding our STEP. Our STEP values helps all staff to Begin Small, to Take a Lead, to be Wanting to Develop, and to develop into Professional-Buyer.”

PAYFAZZ additional famous that it’s going to create an ecosystem revolving round fixing the wants of our prospects — will probably be higher than any competing ecosystem or platform.  In response to Deal Road Asia, PAYFAZZ Co-Founder and CEO Hendra Kwik, said:

“We see that fintech apps accessible by way of a smartphone will revolutionize the monetary service trade within the area. We need to participate on this revolution by making invoice funds, cash transfers, loans, financial savings accounts, and funding providers simply accessible by way of smartphones to speed up monetary inclusion throughout Southeast Asia.”

PAYFAZZ beforehand raised $21 million from buyers final yr and took part within the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017. The funding spherical’s funds might be used to proceed enlargement efforts all through Southeast Asia.

Eversend, a Neobank for Africans, is ready to shut its fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign on Seedrs with greater than €850,000 secured from almost 950 Seedrs buyers. The funding spherical was launched in Might, initially looking for €550,000. The banking group is providing 7.67% in fairness at a €6,616,739 pre-money valuation.

As beforehand reported, Eversend describes itself as a digital-only finance platform offering cross-border cash transfers, multi-currency wallets, forex alternate, and aspirations to supply private loans, financial savings, group financial savings, service provider funds and investments sooner or later.

“For Africans and Africans within the diaspora that have inconvenient and costly monetary companies, Eversend is a one-stop monetary companies hub to alternate, save, handle and ship cash at the absolute best charges, each on-line and offline.”

The neobank additional revealed its mission is to unravel probably the most painful drawback that Africans face in monetary companies.

“We select to deal with intra-Africa cash transfers, the place the remaining $21 billion is transferred, in addition to cash transfers from Sub Saharan Africa to the remainder of the world, totalling $14.2 billion yearly. For this market there may be, so far as we’re conscious, no digital answer. It’s nonetheless dominated by Western Union and MoneyGram. This implies charges probably exceeding 30%, a bus journey to the closest metropolis, and ready in line. Eversend integrates with cellular cash platforms and prices 2.5-4%.”

Funds from the Seedrs spherical can be used for the next:

• Product Improvement: Eversend will use a few of this cash to beef up its product and engineering workforce so it may ship sooner.
• Person Acquisition: Eversend must speed up its consumer acquisition efforts.
• Working Capital: Among the funds will stay in firm accounts as working capital to beef up Eversend’s netting off reserves.
• Market Growth: Eversend intends to develop its providing to Nigeria, Francophone Africa, and Europe to make an actual connection between Diaspora and Africa.
• Regulatory Compliance: When Eversend closes its seed spherical, a number of the funds can be used for regulatory compliance.

The marketing campaign is ready to shut later this week.